1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the adoption of a junior college branch campus
1-3 maintenance tax by certain counties.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 130.087(b), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (b) On presentation of a petition for an election to
1-8 authorize a junior college district branch campus maintenance tax
1-9 signed by not fewer than five percent of the qualified voters of
1-10 the jurisdiction in which the proposed tax is to be levied, the
1-11 governing body of the school district or county, as applicable,
1-12 shall determine the legality and the genuineness of the petition
1-13 and, if it is determined to be legal and genuine, forward the
1-14 petition to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board[, Texas
1-15 College and University System]. The governing body of a county
1-16 with a population of 150,000 or less, on completion of a needs
1-17 assessment analysis showing adequate need and on approval by the
1-18 coordinating board, on its own motion and without the presentation
1-19 of a petition, may propose an election to authorize a branch campus
1-20 maintenance tax.
1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1346 was passed by the House on April
16, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 136, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 1346 on May 22, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0,
1 present, not voting.
_______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1346 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 20, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor